[virt-tools-list] [PATCH virt-manager]: virtinst: correctly find the sles s390x kernel and initrd

[Richard W.M. Jones]

On Sat, Sep 12, 2015 at 12:42:57PM -0400, Cole Robinson wrote:
> On 09/12/2015 12:37 PM, Guido Günther wrote:
> > On Fri, Sep 11, 2015 at 10:28:08AM -0600, Charles Arnold wrote:
> >>>>> On 9/11/2015 at 09:59 AM, Cole Robinson <crobinso at redhat.com> wrote: 
> >>> On 09/11/2015 11:41 AM, Charles Arnold wrote:
> >>>> Allow virt-install to correctly find the SLES kernel/initrd on the media
> >>>> when installing an s390x VM.
> >>>>
> >>>> Signed-off-by: Charles Arnold <carnold at suse.com>
> >>>>
> >>>
> >>> Thanks for the patch. Is there a public URL/media to test this against?
> >>
> >> I don't think so or at least I'm not aware of a public URL.  s390 being the big
> >> expensive piece of hardware that it is I doubt anyone makes it public.
> > 
> > Debian publishes it's s390x kernel/initrad as part of the installer:
> > 
> >     http://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian/dists/jessie/main/installer-s390x/current/images/generic/
> > 
> 
> Fedora has a tree nowadays too, but it's a non-primary architecture still.
> 
> It's been on my todo list for a while to try and see if I can get some of the
> esoteric archs to boot/install with virt-install + libvirt + qemu with proper
> defaults...

I didn't get very far, but you might find this thread helpful:

https://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2015-08/threads.html#03880

Rich.

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